Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

"Like this the new world won't be a paradise, in addition to that, these enemies have already executed a sinister plan, making the circumstances for all of you out there quite unfavorable," it paused, as it added with much serious face, "and these new changes are what your current enemies here are aware of."

"The nobles?"

"Sure, the nobles here, the nobles at many other places, every single traitor is already aware of these changes, and ready for them."

I felt extreme anger as I hurriedly said:

"Then I will kill them all!"

"You won't have the chance to do that," the old lizard shook its head in regret, "despite how much I wanted to see these traitors being killed and these wicked enemies' plan be toppled by you, you don't have time or strength to pull this feat."

I understood its meaning hidden inside its words. "How much time do I have?" I asked, just to make sure of my assumptions.

"One month, at most. Just enough time for you to gather your allies before the apocalypse hits you all."

I knew whom it was referring to as my allies; the mystic art society trapped masters. "Tell me then everything," I demanded, as I was ready for the worst.

"The witch destroyed the world based on a plan, not just on a whim; she wanted humans to be much prepared for the worst. She planned it so when the real world would erupt again as a whole, the current empires and kingdoms will be able to join this world in the same form of glory and civilization. However, the enemies had already cracked this plan, and now they also managed to shatter it to nihility.

When you are going there, you will start with nothing, from the scratch. However they couldn't shatter everything, luckily, or else you will be doomed there. so, a single rule remained unchanged, the rule of the stele."

"The rule of the stele?!" I muttered with a surprised look over my face.

"Yep, it's as you expected. Didn't you notice that despite pushing this hard over your enemies, none of them had ever summoned armies to aid except for this single fort battle?"

Its words made me stutter in thoughts, recalling all the past events, making me realize something. "The new contribution system isn't the act of the guardian?" I asked with a shocked tone.

"Unfortunately not," the old lizard simply replied by this, confirming my own guess.

That was huge news indeed! I imagined when I sat foot here for the first time that this new system was enforced by the guardian as a hurdle on the nobles path, however per the old lizard's words; it wasn't!

It was the mere scheme of the enemies of the old witch, me, and all humans! This law was what remained after they destroyed everything, and that meant they already did that!

"So, they are keeping their points for later use?" I asked.

"Not only that, but there is a hidden catch not noticed by all; but they knew of it," the old lizard paused, as it tried to add more significance to its next words. "These points can be transferred from person to person."

And his words really were worthy of his long pause!

"What do you say?!!!" I was stupefied the instant I heard its words. "Won't we all be summoned together?" That was the question that I had in mind after thinking briefly about this answer.

"No!"

Its short reply explained it all!

"As they can, I also can, right?"

"Sure, and like this you know what you have to do, right?"

I nodded, as there was nothing more to say. "Is there any more info you want to add?" I tried to instigate it to speak, but it simply replied with its rude behavior. The next moment I found myself pushed away, hard, towards the surface, and a moment later I found myself standing inside this huge vacant fortress, with only my demons waiting for me there, surrounded by a huge pile of dead players' bodies.

I glanced at my hand, to find a small square shaped strange board, covered in lines so complicated to be seen separate or organized. It was also littered in pure golden rays, and instantly I felt a severe heavy pressure over my entire body before I hurriedly put it away.

"Sigh, you don't have to be this rude, old lizard!"

"You finally came out," my demon leisurely walked to me, side by side with the demoness which seemed to sense my troubled mind. "Are you alright?" she asked, while checking all over my body.

"It's alright," I sighed before glancing at everything here, "have you finished killing everyone?" I asked.

"Sure, every single one of them is now dead. We also gathered all the loot and saved it for you," the demoness replied, before waving a hand and instantly a mountain of loot appeared in front of me.

I glanced, with no much interest of joy anymore, towards this pile before touching them and sucking them all inside one of my porins. "Are you really ok?" the demon this time sensed my weird behavior, as he was the longer of the two to be with me.

Usually I would jump out of joy or even dance when having such a huge loot; especially if many of them were mystic art medallions. However I wasn't acting the same as the old me, which made him skeptical towards my behavior.

"It's…" I paused, hesitated to tell them the bad news, "it's complicated. Let's move then and kill everything here in this layer until everyone catches up to us," I said, while summoning my balloon and jumping into it.

The two demons exchanged silent glances, as if they were admitting to themselves about my weird behavior. I wasn't in the mood right now to speak to them about anything, not yet.

My mind was busy with what the old lizard just told me. it seemed the ancient plan of the old witch failed, and now saving this world would rest upon my shoulders.

However, I was weak, alone, with no back up or enough preparations. As for my enemies, they were numerous, well prepared, and having the support of a hidden mighty enemy, an enemy that even the witch herself in the epitome of her power couldn't rival with!

How the hell was I supposed to battle with these adversaries and win? Sigh, Why did things keep getting harder and more complicated the more I got powerful and mature?

Sigh!